In valuing this list the size of the county must be borne in mind. Subject to this qualification, the proportion of the forms in -ing, is a[242] measure of the Germanism of the population. It is at the maximum in Kent and Norfolk, and at the minimum in Cornwall and Monmouth.
2. The simple forms (e.g., Billings) as opposed to the compounds (Billing-hay) bear the following proportions:—
| In | Essex as | 21 | to | 48 | In | Northumberl. as | 4 | to | 35 |
| " | Kent | 25 | — | 60 | " | Nottinghamsh. | 3 | — | 22 |
| " | Middlesex | 4 | — | 12 | " | Northamptonsh. | 3 | — | 48 |
| " | Hertford | 3 | — | 10 | " | Derbyshire | 2 | — | 14 |
| " | Sussex | 24 | — | 68 | " | Dorsetshire | 2 | — | 21 |
| " | Surrey | 5 | — | 18 | " | Cambridgeshire | 2 | — | 21 |
| " | Berks | 5 | — | 22 | " | Oxfordshire | 2 | — | 31 |
| " | Norfolk | 24 | — | 96 | " | Gloucestersh. | 2 | — | 46 |
| " | Suffolk | 15 | — | 56 | " | Bucks | 1 | — | 17 |
| " | Hants | 3 | — | 16 | " | Leicestershire | 1 | — | 19 |
| " | Hunts | 6 | — | 33 | " | Devonshire | 1 | — | 24 |
| " | Lincolnshire | 7 | — | 76 | " | Wilts | 1 | — | 25 |
| " | Yorkshire | 13 | — | 127 | " | Warwickshire | 1 | — | 31 |
| " | Bedfordshire | 4 | — | 22 | " | Shropshire | 1 | — | 34 |
| " | Lancashire | 4 | — | 26 | " | Somersetshire | 1 | — | 34 |
Now the simple forms Mr. Kemble considers to have been the names of the older and more original settlements with the "further possibility of the settlements distinguished by the addition of -hám, -wic, and so forth, to the original names, having being filial settlements, or, as it were, colonies, from them."—Saxons in England, i. 479.
3. The same names appear in different localities, e.g.:
| Æscings | in | Essex, Somerset, Sussex. |
| Alings | " | Kent, Dorset, Devon, Lincoln. |
| [243]Ardings | " | Sussex, Berks, Norths. |
| Arlings | " | Devon, Gloucester, Sussex. |
| Banings | " | Herts, Kent, Lincoln, Salop. |
| Beádings | " | Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Isle of Wight, &c. |
This leads to the doctrine that either one community was deduced from another, or that both were deduced from a third; this being more especially the case when—
4. The name is found in Germany as well as in Britain. This happens with—
| The | Walsingas | inferred from | Walsing-ham, |
| " | Harlingas | " | Harling, |
| " | Brentingas | " | Brenting-by, |
| " | Scyldingas | " | Skelding, |
| " | Scylfingas | " | Shilving-ton |
| " | Ardingas | " | Arding-worth |
| " | Heardingas | " | Harding-ham |
| " | Baningas | " | Banning-ham |
| " | Thyringas | " | Thoring-ton, &c. |
If all these names are to be found not only in Germany but in the Angle part of it, the current opinion as to the homogeneous character of the Anglo-Saxon population stands undisturbed. Each, however, is found beyond the Angle area, and so far as this is the case, we have an argument in favour of our early population having been slightly heterogeneous.